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Sunday, March 6
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1:00 PM
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Mississippi State
Sooners? First Tie Since 2008
March 06, 2016 | Baseball
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LOS ANGELES – Due to travel restrictions, the University of Oklahoma baseball team came away with a 5-5 tie against No. 20 Mississippi State in front of 1,543 at Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The tie is the first for the Sooners (4-7-1) since 2008. The game was the final contest of three for OU at the Dodger Stadium Classic.
Oklahoma scored a run in the top of the first, but was soon playing from behind as the Bulldogs (8-3-1) produced three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Down 5-1, the Sooners rallied with runs in three consecutive innings; beginning in the fourth.
Senior right fielder Alex Wise (Neosho, Mo.) singled and freshman designated hitter Chris Andritsos (The Woodlands, Texas) walked to put two on base with only one out. Junior first baseman Austin O'Brien (Owasso, Okla.) came through with his second double of the year to drive in Wise. Andritsos later came across on a bases loaded hit-by-pitch, but OU would leave three on after cutting the deficit to two runs.
Junior shortstop Sheldon Neuse (Fort Worth, Texas) brought the Sooners within a run with a one-out, solo blast into the bleachers in left field. It was his second home run of the season.
In the top of the sixth, freshman center fielder Steele Walker (Prosper, Texas) doubled and sophomore second baseman Kyle Mendenhall (Carlsbad, Calif.) singled to put runners on the corners with one out. Junior Ben Hollas (Longview, Texas) was called on to pinch-hit and put down an excellent bunt on a suicide-squeeze and beat the throw to first with an infield-single as Walker raced home with the game-tying run. However, Oklahoma would lead the bases loaded again as a pair of groundballs stayed on the infield to minimize the OU threat.
Aside from a solo home run to third baseman Gavin Collins in the third inning, the Sooner bullpen was terrific. Four relievers combined to throw 7.1 innings of one-run ball. Senior right-hander Keaton Hernandez (Palm Springs, Calif.) tossed a scoreless-seventh and -eighth in a tie ballgame. Neuse moved from short to pitch the ninth and sat down MSU 1-2-3 to end the game.
Junior lefty Austin Kerns (Owasso, Okla.) struggled through 1.2 innings in the start for Oklahoma. He gave up four runs, three earned, on five hits and two walks. Lefty Daniel Brown went 3.1 innings in the start for the Bulldogs. He allowed three runs on three hits and two walks.
The Sooners return home this week to take on Wichita State on Tuesday night at 6:00 pm from L. Dale Mitchell Park.
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